“High” culture is wildly popular right now, and isn’t that what artists have been fighting for? “Public enthusiasm for art, music, theater, and dance is raising some highbrow eyebrows, however. Academics, connoisseurs, and critics maintain that as arts organizations market themselves to draw new audiences, the quality of their offerings has been ‘dumbed down’. ‘Popularity is not necessarily a measure of success in the arts.” Too many institutions are compromising their standards as they scramble to respond to ‘bottom-line pressures that reared their ugly heads in the 1990s’.” – Boston Globe 08/27/00